Hip attachment for boots



(No Model.)

G. G. REXER &; A. W. SIDESINGER.

HIP ATTACHMENT FOR BOOTS.

No. 413,149. Patented Oct. 15, 1889.

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CHARLES G. REXER AND ALEXANDER W. SIDESINGER, OF BELLEFONTAINE OHIO.

HIP ATTACHMENT FOR BOOTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,149, dated October 15, 1889..

Application filed September 26, 1888- Serial No. 286, 164. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES G. REXER and ALEXANDER W. SIDESINGER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Bellefontaine, in the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Hip Attachment for Boots, of which the following i is a specification.

Our invention relates to a detachable top to to an ordinary rubber or other boot toform a hip-boot.

Figure 1 is a boot and hip attachment in side elevation employing our impro ved springrim device. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of I 5 our tubular metallic piece. Fig. 3 is a sec tional view of the tubular piece, the boot-top, and the spring-rim. Fig. at is a top viewtaken at the top of the boot. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the spring-band.

v A represents the hip attachment; B, the

boot proper; C, a spring-wire or a half-rounded band having its ends united by a thumbscrew.

D is the uniting-screw; E, a tubular metallic'piece having the rabbet or semicircular groove F to receive the band C.

The construction and operation of our device are as follows:

The hip-top attachment piece A is made of c proper length to extend from the hip down over the knee and over the topof the ordinary boot. Inside of the top of the ordinary boot is placed a detachable tubular piece E, having the groove F therein. Surrounding 3 5 the hip attachment, the top of the ordinary boot, and the tubular piece E is a spring-wire or semicircular ring C, the ends of which are united by the screw D, for loosening or tightening the same. The wire C is put on loosely over the lower end of the hip attachment and 40 the upper part of the boot-top,,and'so as to come immediately over the groove Fin the tubular inside piece. The screw D is then screwed up until the ends of the ring C are drawn together and the cloth or rubber of the boot-top and attachment are forced tightly into the groove F, forming a water-tight joint and uniting the parts firmly together.

Rubber hip-boots are both expensive and cumbersome, and when a person ordinarily 5o wants to use a hip-boot once he will use the ordinary rubber boot twenty times. \Ve find it, therefore, of great advantage to make the hip part detachable, both for convenience and for economys sake.

Ordinarily the ring C will compress. the goods of the boot-top and the hip attachment so firmly in the groove F of the piece E that the joint is perfectly air-tight; but when desired a rubber band or gasket can be inserted between the rings with the goods, or the lower part of the hip attachment may have an extra thickness of rubber on it to make it more easily compressible.

l/Vhat we claim is The detachable hip attachment for boots, consisting of the detachable top, the tubular piece provided with the circumferential groove, and the attaching-band, as and for the purpose set forth.

CHAS. G. REXER. v ALEXANDER TV. SIDESINGER.

l/Vitnesses:

NED CAMPBELL,

E. K. CAMPBELL. 

